The plurality — 37 percent — of voters said healthcare was the most important issue they considered in the Democratic primaries, according to exit poll data cited by The Washington Post.
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The Corner Office series asks healthcare executives to answer seven questions about their life inside and outside the C-suite.
Since 2012, healthcare experts and policy wonks have posted love notes to the industry on Twitter around Valentine's Day in the form of #HealthPolicyValentines.
A "politically powerful" union representing 130,000 culinary workers and their families opposes "Medicare for All," particularly the version of the plan Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., is running on, according to The Nevada Independent.
Terry Shaw has worked at Altamonte Springs, Fla.-based AdventHealth for more than three decades, starting as intern in the finance department and becoming president and CEO of the health system in 2016.
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New Hanover Regional Medical Center in Wilmington, N.C., and a state employees association are battling it out in $445,000 worth of local ad buys partially related to the hospital's future governance structure, reports Port City Daily.
Republican "divisions" in opinion on a bipartisan drug pricing bill have slowed further action on the legislation so far, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said, according to The Hill.
Since 1996, more men are grocery shopping, doing laundry, cooking, dishwashing and cleaning, but women still shoulder most of the work related to those tasks, according to a Gallup poll.
JAMA Network, the organization that runs JAMA and the American Medical Association's other publications, launched JAMA Health Forum, which will provide health policy content from across the network.